"Another healthy dose of ocular wool removal treatment from Monbiot." - This was alluding to the fact that Monbiot is good at lifting the wool that gets pulled over our eyes.

"£1m granted for 'rewilding' rivers yet grousemoors get £24m. Sick. Reverse those numbers." - There was a mention in the article you referred to that pointed out a scheme to replace natural 'snaggy' parts of a river was granted £1m yet grousemoor management benefitted from £24m in subsidies and they cause water to run off their land by way of treeless landscapes. These subsidies have been awarded the wrong way round. Mind you, why should the latter get anything?